Music: Twilight of Twaddle?

Hans Keller is a London music critic whose aim is to stop most talk
about music. This apparently self-destructive ambition is prompted by
Keller's belief that emotions slip through the loom of language like
herring through a cargo net. Keller's solution: analysis by music
instead of by words. His criticism of Mozart's String Quartet in D
Minor (K. 421) broadcast last week from Hamburg, convincingly
demonstrated that a few snatches of music, pointedly juxtaposed, can
make a sharper comment on a composition than a column of critical
prose.

Aside from its tendency to jargon, the trouble with verbal music
criticism, says Keller,...